While millions of dollars have been invested in information technologies to improve intelligence information sharing among law enforcement agencies at the Federal, Tribal, State and Local levels, there remains a hesitation ...

The objective of this poster, which reflects a small tranche of an overall larger thesis, is to critically investigate this technological shift in education and to understand what effects it is having on student learning, ...

People have a difficult time finding relevant digital collections even though there has been significant increase in openly accessible digital collections. In this poster, we describe our 3R system design for a digital ...

Benchmarking and rankings, with the help of indexes and indicators, are common practices to gauge the status or standing and assess the progress of entities such as institutions & countries with respect to a characteristic ...

We consider a novel query processing approach for data analysis in Process Data Warehouse system that performs summarization and discovery of trends in dynamic data from complex processes. In particular, we introduce an ...

Transparency and information access are crucial components
of a successful democratic society. President-elect Obama
has pledged to use all available technologies to make the
government more transparent and accountable ...

This poster presentation envisions the initial steps in fostering indigenous e-inclusion by proposing the creation of an intercultural, multi-disciplinary dialog between representatives of academia, indigenous communities, ...

Sexual violence and exploitation (SVE) in conflict settings is an
under reported phenomenon that has challenged service delivery
and humanitarian intervention. A proposed solution to this
problem is to create a global ...

The dynamic information field is characterized by the constant ebbs and flows of innovations in information technologies (IT). Accordingly, managing information and formulating policies in the iField require understanding ...

Our information presentations reflect how we think and remember. For example, some people create ideas through concept maps or sketches, while some people use writing. How are ideas presented and/or conceived differently ...

The public sector in most countries is the
biggest single producer and owner of a large
variety of information. Governments create,
collect, manage, and store vast quantities of
data and information and increasingly ...

Throughout the history of computing, there have been sev-
eral paradigm shifts from main-frames to mini computing to
microprocessing to networked computers. On track to be the
next major paradigm shift is that of cloud ...

iSchool collaboration with local, national or global constituencies can be promoted through curricular programs, community outreach, and partnerships with other nonprofit and for-profit institutions and organizations on ...

In this paper, we are concerned with the applicability of the concept of Community
Informatics (CI) rooted in North American studies to a different context, Japan. Despite the
fact that CI is a relatively new filed of ...

This poster presents a critical, values-oriented investigation of a
specific space within the online universe: shared virtual
playgrounds designed for preteens. Specifically we investigate
three preteen worlds with a ...

WILIS 2 is a three year project (2007-2010) to create an alumni tracking system that all LIS master’s programs can potentially use. The project builds on WILIS 1, a comprehensive study of career patterns of graduates of ...